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On a conjecture of Le Bruyn

Anne Cortella, Boris Kunyavskii

math.AGarXiv:math/9803103

Abstract

Given a generic field extension F/k of degree n>3 (i.e. the Galois group of the normal closure of F is isomorphic to the symmetric group Sn), we prove that the norm torus, defined as the kernel of the norm map N:RF/k(Gm)m, is not rational over k.

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